Modifying consolidated material requirements for visit package

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In this page You can modify the part requirement details for the work units in the visit package.  Tell me more

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The “Edit Material Requirements” page appears.

The system displays the following in the “Visit Package Details” group box:

Visit Package #

The visit package for which the consolidated material requirements must be modified.

Aircraft Reg #

The aircraft registration number for which the visit package is applicable.

Title

The description of the visit package.

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Revision #

The latest revision number of the visit package. The system leaves the field blank if the visit package has not been revised.

Part #

Use the drop-down list box to select the part for which the details are to be retrieved.

The system displays the following on clicking the “Get Details” pushbutton:

Part Description

The description of the part.

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The system displays the following in the “Task Details” multiline on clicking the “Get Details” pushbutton:

Work Unit #

The task  for which the part is required.

Work Unit Type

The type of the work unit, which could be “Task” .

Work Unit Desc

The description of the task .

Work Center #

The work center or place where the part is required.

Material Request #

The number identifying the material request for a part from warehouse.

Note: For the part and work unit combination, if there is more than one material request, each material request is displayed as a line item in the multiline based on display option “by Material request”.

If the display option is set as “By part” and if multiple material request exists for a part then string “Multiple” is displayed again the part#.  

Note: If the visit package is in “Fresh” or “Draft” status and there is no “Revision #”, then the system retrieves the “Material Request #” from the “Central Planning” business component. If there is a “Revision #”, then the system retrieves the “Material Request #” from the “Hangar Work Order” business component.

Note: The system considers only those material requests that are not in “Cancelled” or “Short Closed” status.

  • Select the hyperlinked material request number in the multiline, to view the material request details.

Work center Description

The textual description of the work center.

  • Enter the following fields:

Substitute Part #

The number identifying the alternate part that can be used, if the part entered in the "Part #" field is not available. Ensure that this part number is a valid part number as identified in the "Create Part Main Information" activity of the "Part Administration" business component.

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Substitute Type

Use the drop-down list box to select the substitute type for the part. The system lists the following options:

  • “Not Allowed” – Select this option to indicate that substitution of the requested part with the alternate part, is not allowed.

  • “NHA”  - Select this option to retrieve the next higher assembly for the requested part.

  • “Specific Alternates” – Select this option to retrieve specific alternate parts for the requested part.

The system leaves the field blank by default.

Note: If the “NHA” or “Specific Alternates” option is selected, ensure that the “Substitute Part #” field is not left blank. If the “Specific Alternates” option is selected, ensure that the part number entered in the “Substitute Part #” field is either a valid alternate part number, direct alternate, conditional alternate, or customer-specific alternate for the aircraft owned by the customer, as identified in the “Maintain Alternate Part Nos” activity of the “Part Administration” business component, or is a position-based alternate as identified in the “Build Aircraft Configuration” activity of the “Configuration” business component.

Stock Status

Use the drop-down list box to select the stock status of the part. The system lists the following option “PBH” which indicates  that the part is identified as a powered by hours (PBH) part.

The system also lists all the active stock statuses that are mapped to the transaction type "Material Request" in the "Create User Defined Stock Status" activity of the "User Defined Stock Status" business component. The system leaves the field blank by default.

Note: Ensure that the "PBH" option is selected under the following circumstances:

a) The part is identified as PBH part for the supplier who is mapped to the aircraft specified in the “Aircraft Reg #” field.

b) The part and its higher assembly part are identified as PBH object list for a supplier.

c) The component that is requested for a “Component Removal” job or “Onwing” job, along with its higher assemblies, is identified as PBH for the supplier.

Note: You cannot modify the stock status for a part  with the stock status “PBH”.

Note: If the stock status is not specified for any new part, the system performs the following on clicking the “Edit Requirements” pushbutton:

a) retrieves the stock status from the “Customer Order” business component, if the visit package has reference to the customer order.

b) updates the stock status of each part as the preferred stock status of the aircraft, specified in the “Aircraft” business component, if the visit package does not have reference to the customer order.

The system displays the following fields:

UOM

The unit of measurement for the part.

Est. Quantity

The quantity of part estimated to complete the work unit. The estimated quantity is defined in the “Maintenance Task” business component.

Req Qty.

The quantity of part required to complete the work unit (Decimal). Mandatory. The number entered in this field must be positive.

The system displays the following:

Total Req. Quantity

The total quantity of the part required for completing the work unit.

Note: For related tasks, the system copy parts requirement from task master and displays the required quantity for the tasks

Available Qty

The quantity of part currently available in the warehouse.

Enter the following:

Need Frequency

Use the drop-down list box to specify the frequency of requirement of the part. The combo is loaded with options “Always” and “As Required”. The system defaults the combo with the already saved value if available, else defaults “Always”.

The system displays the following in the multiline:

Warehouse #

The number identifying the warehouse.

The system performs the following:

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Modifying consolidated material requirements for visit package – An overview

You can modify the part requirement details for the work units in the visit package. You can select the part for which the work unit details must be retrieved. Details such as work unit number, work unit description, estimated quantity, quantity of part required for the work unit, the warehouse where the part is available and the total number of parts available in the warehouse, are displayed. You can modify the required quantity of parts.

The system updates the resource requirement details and stores the name of the currently logged in user and current server date.

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